At the XXV11th Annual Conference Indian Association of Pathology and Microbiology (IAPM) UP Chapter at UP PATHCON 2019 on 16th -17th November IAPM ( UP Chapter), two AMAANA members Dr. Mohsin Syed Alvi from Harrington Hospital, USA and Dr. Asghar Naqvi from McMaster University, Canada were invited speakers. The event was successfully organized by President Prof. Vatsala Misra IAPM (UP Chapter) and Chairperson Prof. Sayeedul Hasan Arif with Co Chairperson Prof Mahboob Hasan of Department of Pathology, JNMC, Aligarh Muslim University and other team members under the patronage of VC AMU Prof. Tariq Mansoor and JNMC Dean Prof Rakesh Maheshwari. The event was held at the state of the art JNMC Auditorium which was built in part by AMAANA raised funds.
AMU VC Prof. Tariq Mansoor commented that in this era of personalized and precision medicine a conference of this nature is absolutely necessary to keep abreast with the rapid recent advances in this field. Dr. Alvi spoke on the Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis of Lung Cancer and Dr. Naqvi spoke about Morphology and Molecular genetics in the era of targeted treatment of Lung Neoplasia.
Dr. Shamsi, MD, PhD, co-founder and principal of RadMD is a radiologist with 25+ years of clinical development experience for drugs and devices.
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1991, MS (General Surgery) 2001
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1990, MD (Pediatrics) 1993. Won 3 Gold Medals and President of India’s Silver Medal during MBBS.
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1976, MD (Medicine)1980
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1992, MD Radiology (1992-95, did not finish, moved to US)
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1995
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1996
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 2002, MD (Radiology) 2007
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 2005, MD (Pathology) 2008
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1991, MD (Anesthesiology) 1994.
Dr. Ashraf Khan received his medical (MBBS) degree in 1980 from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, India following which he did 3-year postgraduate training (MD) in Pathology and then joined as a lecturer in Pathology at the same institution in 1983. In 1985 Dr. Khan moved to England where he trained in Histopathology at Lewisham and Guy’s Hospital of the University of London. This training included experience of working at the Hedley Atkins Breast Unit of the Imperial Cancer Research Foundation at Guy’s Hospital under Dr. Rosemary Millis an internationally recognized breast pathologist who inspired him to become interested in breast pathology. After serving as a senior Registrar in Histopathology for 3 years at Guy’s Hospital and passing the MRCPath examination, Dr. Khan migrated to the United States in 1993 to join as a Surgical Pathology Fellow at University of Massachusetts Medical Center (UMMC). This one-year fellowship was followed by his appointment as an Assistant Professor in Pathology at UMMC in 1994, and worked his way up to his present position as Professor of Pathology (since 2005). He is currently the Director of Surgical Pathology and served as Director of Pathology Residency Program from 2001-08 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is actively involved in the UMASS medical center and medical school administrative functions serving on the Faculty Council, Medical School Admissions Committee, Cancer Committee, and Director of Clinical Labs at UMASS’s Hahnemann and Memorial campuses and Quality Assurance Coordinator of the Hospital Tumor Registry among others.